Quality of Life: A Longitudinal Analysis of Correlates of Morale in Old Age by Said Shahtahmasebi

“…These applications are illustrated using morale in old age from the North Wales Longitudinal Study Old Age. …”
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Nested Copula Model for Overall Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Multispan Bridges by Ming Ma, Xiaoguang Wang, Naidong Liu, Shuai Song, Shuai Wang

“…A four-span continuous rigid frame bridge was used to illustrate the application of the proposed method. The results show that the nested copula model accurately simulated the correlations between multiple components, which would eliminate the overestimation or underestimation by the first-order boundary method.…”
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Interval Shannon Wavelet Collocation Method for Fractional Fokker-Planck Equation by Shu-Li Mei, De-Hai Zhu

“…A simple Fokker-Planck equation is taken as an example to illustrate the effectiveness by comparing with the Grunwald-Letnikov central difference approximation (GL-CDA).…”
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I. PRAYERS OF FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN GIUSEPPE VERDI’S OPERAS FENENA’S PRAYER: OH, DISCHIUSO È IL FIRMAMENTO by Adél FEKETE

“…Other such segments will be arias which bear bel canto influences (preghiere from Giovanna d'Arco and Stiffelio), but also ones illustrating the language transformation of the female prayer in more mature operatic works, such as Aida and Otello. …”
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Effect of Water on Mechanical Properties of Coal Measures Mudstone Using Nanoindentation by Wenshuai Li, Bangyou Jiang, Shitan Gu

“…The results showed that the indentation modulus varied significantly, from as low as 0.2 GPa to a quite high value of 125 GPa, indicating a strongly heterogeneous distribution of mudstone. The water illustrated a significant effect on the microscale mechanical properties of water-sensitivity minerals like clay minerals. …”
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Making Space for Painting by Paul Duro

“…Presenting artwork drawn from cave painting to modernist abstraction, my examples seek to illustrate the various ways in which the framing of space may be said to be the foundational element of picture making – without which the limits of art could not be ascertained.…”
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The case for weak null in English by Andrew Tollet

“…Rather than a corpus-based statistical approach, this paper draws upon a smaller selection of contemporary, non-fictional texts from a variety of semantic fields to illustrate the points being made. …”
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W kierunku dwujęzyczności w edukacji wczesnoszkolnej – problemy nauczania czytania w języku obcym na przykładzie języka angielskiego by Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka

“…The results of several cross-linguistic studies are presented to illustrate the importance of inter-lingual differences in reading in a foreign language. …”
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INCORPORATING PUBLIC INPUT WITH GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) FOR BICYCLE STRATEGIC PLANNING by Jiangli Li, June Chae-Un

“…This paper presents a case study of bicycle strategic planning in the City of Grand Prairie, Texas. It illustrates how local governments can engage the public in bicycle planning through a public input process and use of GIS. …”
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Optimizing Product Configuration Problems with Multisourcing Supplier Selections under Both Carbon Cap and Carbon Tax Regulations by Jia Li, Dong Yang

“…A case study of a configurable ranger-drilling machine is illustrated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented approach. …”
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Geometric Lattice Structure of Covering and Its Application to Attribute Reduction through Matroids by Aiping Huang, William Zhu

“…Furthermore, a special type of information system is taken as an example to illustrate the application. In a word, this work points out an interesting view, namely, geometric lattice, to study the attribute reduction issues of information systems.…”
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Almost Periodic Solutions of a Discrete Mutualism Model with Variable Delays by Yongzhi Liao, Tianwei Zhang

“…Finally, some examples and numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our main results.…”
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Block-Wise Two-Dimensional Maximum Margin Criterion for Face Recognition by Xiao-Zhang Liu, Guan Yang

“…Theoretical analysis and experiments on benchmark face databases illustrate that the proposed method is effective and efficient.…”
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New Similarity of Triangular Fuzzy Number and Its Application by Xixiang Zhang, Weimin Ma, Liping Chen

“…A collaborative filtering case is used to illustrate users’ similarity based on cloud model and triangular fuzzy number; the result indicates that users’ similarity based on triangular fuzzy number can obtain better discrimination. …”
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An Asynchronous Low Power and High Performance VLSI Architecture for Viterbi Decoder Implemented with Quasi Delay Insensitive Templates by T. Kalavathi Devi, Sakthivel Palaniappan

“…The simulation result illustrates that the asynchronous design techniques have 25.21% of power reduction compared to synchronous design and work at a speed of 475 MHz.…”
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Risk Measurement for Portfolio Credit Risk Based on a Mixed Poisson Model by Rongda Chen, Huanhuan Yu

“…Relationship between default probability and loss level reflected through the MC simulation has practical features. This study illustrates the practical value and effectiveness of mixed Poisson model in risk measurement for credit portfolio.…”
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Snahy šlechty českého severovýchodu o zmírnění následků pobělohorských konfiskací by Ondřej Tikovský

“…The individual discoveries from research illustrate different possibilities of the supplicants to conduct negotiations and the applied tactics. …”
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A Novel Image Encryption Scheme Based on PWLCM and Standard Map by Yucheng Chen, Chunming Tang, Zongxiang Yi

“…Furthermore, the numerical simulations and performance analyses illustrate that the proposed encryption scheme can be used in practical application scenarios requiring lightweight security.…”
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Influential Theories of Economics in Shaping Sustainable Development Concepts by Faruque As Sunny, Eila Jeronen, Juping Lan

“…Employing a rigorous literature review and comparative analytical methodology, the study bridges the theoretical foundations with real-world applications, illustrating the dynamic interplay between theories of economics and sustainability imperatives. …”
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Five New Species of Pezizales from Northeastern China by Zhengqing Chen, Tolgor Bau

“…Morphological descriptions, line illustrations, and photographs of the ascocarps of these new species are provided, along with lists of the salient attributes exhibited by the species in the three genera under consideration.…”
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